Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya-Teffi

• Before A Map Of Russia, by Robert Chandler
  In a strange house, in a far away land, / her portrait hangs on the wall; / she herself is dying like a beggar woman, / lying on straw, in pain ...
• Before the map of Russia, by Albert C. Todd
  In a foreign land in an old foreign house / Her portrait kings on the wall, / Her, dying, like a beggar woman, on straw, / In torments for which...